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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
death sentence
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A golf course will be a death sentence to the local ecosystem.
▪ Gilmore received a death sentence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Federal courts would be empowered to impose the death sentence for 51 crimes.
▪ He faces a possible death sentence.
▪ How do we work out the fact that a firing from one job can become an employment death sentence?
▪ The recent death sentence on a high-ranking official is cited as evidence that corruption is at last being taken seriously.
▪ There was a time when it was 15 years from the time a death sentence was first issued.
Wiktionary
death sentence

n. (context legal English) Sentence of execution for a defendant.

Wikipedia
Death Sentence (short story)

"Death Sentence" is a short story by the American science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1943 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov.

Death Sentence (2007 film)

Death Sentence is a 2007 American action drama film loosely based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Brian Garfield.

Directed by Saw director James Wan, the film stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a man who takes the law into his own hands after his son is murdered by a gang as an initiation ritual. Hume must protect his family from the gang's resulting vengeance.

The film premiered on August 31, 2007, and was released on DVD on January 8, 2008.

Death Sentence (novel)

Death Sentence is the 1975 sequel novel to Death Wish by Brian Garfield.

Death sentence (disambiguation)

Death sentence usually refers generally to capital punishment.

It may also refer to:

  • "Death Sentence" (short story), a 1943 short story by Isaac Asimov
  • Death Sentence (novel), a 1975 novel by Brian Garfield
  • Death Sentence (2007 film), a 2007 film adaptation of the Brian Garfield novel
  • Death Sentence (1968 film), a 1968 Italian film
  • Death Sentence, a 1948 French novella (L'Arrêt du mort) by Maurice Blanchot (translated by Lydia Davis, 1998)
  • Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language, a 2003 book by Don Watson
  • Death Sentence (band), a Canadian punk band
  • Mrityudand or The Death Sentence, a 1997 Indian film
Death Sentence (1968 film)

Death Sentence is a 1968 spaghetti western directed by Mario Lanfranchi and starring Richard Conte.

Death Sentence (album)

Death Sentence is the second studio album from Those Who Fear. Facedown Records released the album on June 24, 2014. Those Who Fear worked with Josh Schroeder, in the production of this album.

On February 2, 2016, Facedown released a B-side on YouTube from the album entitled "Bulletproof".

Usage examples of "death sentence".

If a member is deemed to have broken one of the laws and the death sentence is passed, Ciang orders that wooden knives carved with the offender's name be circulated among the members.

Any member who meets the offender is required to carry out the death sentence or face a similar punishment.

I couldn't help but think of a judge intoning a death sentence upon the guilty.

And, very next day, they announced Johannes Van Damme's death sentence.

The Wolfes have declared full vendetta: a death sentence on every Campbell, down to the last man, woman and child.

Roark took him home and the doctor stated that an attempt to leave his bed would be all the death sentence Cameron needed.

I knew that I had heard a man pronounce a death sentence upon himself.